First demonstration of a broadband 37-cell hollow core photonic bandgap fiber and its application to high capacity mode division multiplexing

Author

Jung, Yongmin ; Sleiffer, V.A.J.M. ; Baddela, N. ; Petrovich, M.N. ; Hayes, J.R. ; Wheeler, N.V. ; Gray, D.R. ; Numkam Fokoua, E. ; Wooler, J.P. ; Wong, N.H. ; Parmigiani, F. ; Alam, S.U. ; Surof, J. ; Kuschnerov, M. ; Veljanovski, V. ; de Waardt, H. ; Po

Author_Institution

Optoelectron. Res. Centre, Univ. of Southampton, Southampton, UK

fYear

2013

fDate

17-21 March 2013

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

3

Abstract

We report fabrication of the first low-loss, broadband 37-cell photonic bandgap fiber. Exploiting absence of surface modes and low cross-talk in the fiber we demonstrate mode division multiplexing over three modes with record transmission capacity.

Keywords

holey fibres; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; optical fibre fabrication; optical modulation; photonic band gap; photonic crystals; quadrature amplitude modulation; wavelength division multiplexing; 16-QAM; 16-level quadrature amplitude modulation; DWDM; HC-PBGF; MDM; broadband 37-cell hollow core photonic bandgap fiber; fiber fabrication; low crosstalk; mode division multiplexing; polarization division multiplexing; surface modes; transmission capacity; wavelength division multiplexing; Bandwidth; Couplings; Loss measurement; Multiplexing; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber polarization; Propagation losses;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFC/NFOEC), 2013

Conference_Location

Anaheim, CA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0457-0

Type

conf

Filename

6533223